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1. Warehouse management E-fulfilment firm Active Ants, which ships products for 50 online stores, has developed an order-picking App for Google Glass, which it says has helped its staff pick up online orders faster. The Netherlands-based company gave Google Glass, along with a custom-built stock app, to its warehouse workers in May. Initial results showed that it reduced error rates by 12% and an increased stock picking speed by 15%. 2. The Military Soldiers on […]

mHealth advocates have been debating for some time whether Google Glass will offer meaningful value to physicians, or if it will be just another high-tech toy that fades away when doctors can’t fit it into their workflow. With the recent news that Google Glass is now integrating with an EHR, that argument has just been kicked up a notch. Drchrono, the Mountain View, Calif.-based developer of a free EHR platform that can be accessed via […]

Google’s face-computer may be coming soon to a doctor’s office near you Doctors, nurses and other medical professionals are about to get a new tool in the medicine bags: Google Glass. Drchrono, a digital health startup, claims to have created the first “wearable heath record” that can be accessed through Google’s futuristic face-computer. Doctors can use the app to store patients’ records as well as record medical visits and even procedures via Glass’ camera for consulting […]

You can enroll to submit medical claims and bill health insurance companies electronically within the drchrono platform via the electronic data interchange enrollment ( EDI ). In doing this you can submit claims electronically to any insurance company to get paid. Want to know more about EDI? Electronic data interchange ( EDI ) is an electronic communication system that provides standards for exchanging data via any electronic means. By adhering to the same standard, two […]

Communication in hospitals can be a matter of life and death, yet many hospitals still use paper forms and outdated technologies to gather data and connect healthcare professionals. A new class of mobile technologies coupled with networked communication platforms are helping to reverse this trend by breaking down the silos that exist within the healthcare system, ensuring the free flow of patient records, diagnoses and other vital information between relevant members of staff. This trend […]

Steve Jobs famously said that “laptops are like trucks. They’re going to be used by fewer and fewer people. This transition is going to make people uneasy.” Will this be true in healthcare? The evolution has been quick: We’ve gone from mainframes to mini computers to desktops and servers seemingly in the blink of an eye. Now we’re using laptops, tablets and smartphones – or traveling with just a tablet and smartphone. Mobile is the most under-hyped trend […]

Entrepreneur Daniel Kivatinos praises the health ITaccelerator/incubator movement. Innovations in the healthcare IT investment world today are nothing short of “sort of a new Renaissance,” helping firms like his get established and grow, he says. Kivatinos and his five-person company have reason to praise the incubator movement. Incubators have been very, very good to him. Indeed, his positive experiences could serve as an encouraging road map for other healthcare IT providers wondering if incubators can help […]

Above: DrChrono’s founders Michael Nusimow and Daniel Kivatinos Health care is a massive market opportunity for any developer — and yet, only about 1.3 percent of the application programming interfaces (APIs) on ProgrammableWeb are associated with clinical services. In Mountain View. Calif, a company called DrChrono announced today that it has opened up its API so developers can take advantage of its massive network of 53,000 physicians and 2.6 million patients and build new health applications. The company will vet the best […]

drchrono Inc., the creator of a free Electronic Medical Record (EMR) platform on the iPad, iPhone and cloud, recently releases its new application for iOS7. This is the first mobile EHR to support Apple’s new iOS7 operating system. drchrono’s free mobile EHR app allows doctors to connect with patients and run their practice, which includes sharing medical records, electronic prescribing, medical billing, and patient management, all from the iPad. It will now support the iOS7 […]

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February 25, 2015

Featured in Mountain View Voice, Angela Hey writes the history of drchrono. Michael Nusimow and Daniel Kivatinos were college friends at SUNY Stony Brook in Long Island. They both chose different paths after graduating, but after multiple annoying healthcare visits, they decided that doctors could perform much more effectively with a web-based system focusing on the mobility of an iPad. This system started off with automated patient communications and is now the #1 electronic health record […]

February 18, 2015

Below is a list of our newest features and enhancements. Patients We have updated our system with new service types to check eligibility and benefits for patients such as physical therapy, skilled nursing care, lenses etc. Ordering Provider Section In Patient Demographics, there is a new section where you can enter the ordering provider information. This information is required to submit DMERC claims to the insurance company. Billing You can now select which provider appointments […]

January 16, 2015

Below is a list of our newest features and enhancements. Report When exporting a patient list via our advanced report, you can choose whether to include information such as a patient’s emergency contact name and phone number. Billing Our system is updated with the newest CPT and ICD-10 codes, including those added this year, and can be accessed via our code search. You will now be able to view diagnostic code, pointers and modifier information […]

January 12, 2015

drchrono’s COO, Daniel Kivatinos, writes an article for HIT consultant which delves in healthcare technology. He highlights how doctor-patient experience is greatly changing as technology becomes more internet dependent. One now has the ability to access and review their health data, save their data to the cloud, and message a provider via their smartphone or tablet. The original article can be read here. Here are some slides showing off a bit more about the internet […]

December 23, 2014

Some may say that Google Glass’s future could be bleak, but the eyewear has a future in health care information technology with it’s support of wearable health apps, specifically electronic health records (EHR). Companies including drchrono and iPatientCare have developed their EHR apps for Google Glass to allow doctors to recite data into their electronic health records and view patient’s records at the corner of their eye. The original article can be read here.